At the age of nine I had my first round
of golf through my parents, we didn’t
have it at school, It would have been
nice to have that opportunity, the way
they are doing it with foam balls and
bigger soft clubs, making it fun, who
wants to do it if it’s not made fun, it is
our future of Scottish golf and we need
more players up there in the world
rankings and that’s the only way we are
going to do it.”
On talking about Clubs closing down
like Lothianburn, “it’s very sad to see.
I used to live near there at the age of
15. I nipped my dad’s head until he let
me join so I could walk up and have
a practice. I also remember when I
was growing we played boys open in
the summer holidays having to phone
for late entries or we had forgotten to
enter and they would be quite full, 7
or 8 kids playing these days and we
had a full field, it’s a shame. Hopefully
things will change and we can get back
to how it was.”
Lloyd accredits his father for getting
all three brothers hooked on golf.
We had access into every sport and the
competitiveness between the brothers
has never dwindled. “As the younger